Thanksgiving break is over, and things have officially gotten real. Finals are coming, and so is the holiday season, and it’s easy to let your head spin with everything you need to get done. Don’t let it get...
Nursing Student Survival Guide: The First Clinical Shift
Nursing Student Survival Guide: The First Clinical Shift It’s here – your first clinical shift. You’ve heard horror stories and you don’t know what to expect. You feel like you are about to be thrown to the wolves...
5 Skills Med Students Will Have Nailed by Graduation
Med students will learn hundreds of new skills in medical school, everything from how to make a proper incision to the best treatment for sepsis. In addition to what you are learning from textbooks, there is a certain...
Picmonic Pathways
It’s finally here. A way to zero in on the content that is relevant to nursing students in a nanosecond, with visual mnemonics that make facts easier to remember — you can start learning more in less time! Excited...
Student to Student: Why I wish I started using Picmonic as an MS1
By Brian Wu, PhD and MS3 at USC Everyone tells you there’s way too much information to memorize during your MS1 experience in medical school. And worse, that gunners spend every second memorizing every...
How to Be a Nursing School Ninja: Before, During and After NCLEX® Test Prep Tools
HIYA! That’s the sound of you chopping away the bad habits and setting yourself up for success in nursing school! So far in our series, you’ve learned how to take notes and to study like a nursing school ninja. You’ve...
How to Be a Nursing School Ninja: 7 High-kickin’ Nursing Study Tips
In the first blog of this series covering nursing study tips, we covered how to take notes like a nursing school ninja. Now that you’ve got the best notes in class, how do you study ninja-style? Below we compiled...
How to Be a Nursing School Ninja: 5 Note Taking Secrets
Everyone in nursing school wants to pass their classes, graduate and then ace the NCLEX®. But you want to do better than that. You want to be a Nursing School Ninja. That means you have to learn strategies for how to...
How to Avoid Forgetting Everything from Nursing School Over Summer Break
Summer is here! How do you avoid forgetting everything you learned in nursing school over the summer break? The sun’s out, dogs are sizzling on the grill, your friends are all beckoning you to the lake or beach or...
7 Low-Cost Apps for Nursing Students’ NCLEX-RN Study Plan
Sometimes it seems like the odds are stacked against you in nursing school. It feels like nursing school has become your entire life. You begin to wonder how you’ll ever remember everything you need to know...